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Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2012

Supportive Care: Daytime sleepiness and sleep duration in long-term cancer survivors and non-cancer controls: results from a registry-based survey study



Conclusions

Disturbances in daytime sleepiness and sleep duration persist among long-term cancer survivors and should be monitored in routine survivorship care. More research is needed to identify cancer survivors who are at increased risk for daytime sleepiness and disturbed sleep duration, as well as to identify causal mechanisms for, and interventions to mitigate, persistent differences.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

abstract: Recall of intensive care unit stay in patients managed with a sedation protocol or a sedation protocol with daily sedative interruption



CONCLUSION: A notable percentage of patients discharged from the ICU report moderate to extreme pain, anxiety, and fear, and inability to sleep during their ICU stay; and 29% to 48% have no recall of specific ICU events.